Reply #12: I'm glad you acknowledge that your initial post was vile.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

The two points you are carefully overlooking in this response are a) that boycotts and sanctions are in place against many of the states surrounding Israel (Iran and Gaza leaping to mind) and b) that in most of those states the government is largely responsive to the will of the electorate, making boycotts of very limited value.

Israel is not uniquely evil, and - despite what you try to imply - very few of its western critics claim that it is. But it *is* uniquely evil among states that are highly susceptible to popular pressure from the West - no other self-proclaimed Western-style liberal democracy that is heavily dependent on US support practices apartheid.